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I finally saw Synecdoche, New York and i think it's better than i thought it was when i was actually watching it. It really stuck with me. This is a mild spoiler but the movie is about him being dead, right? After the pipe broke and hit him in the head, all of a sudden the movie was surreal and didn't make sense anymore. Anyway, it was a crazy movie, i'll have to watch it again sometime.

I gave up on that book a few chapters in. The way it was written made it neither believable nor engaging. But that's why I had high hopes for the movie, cuz the reviews said it really strayed from the book. Cracked tells me a major change was done for political reasons with China. But yeah, obviously the biggest change was its focus on single narrative.

World War Z was underwhelming. It was entertaining, but the realization that led to the final solution made no sense. A few plotholes, too. The first half was very good (although it did have it's "wha?" moments).

Yeah, I don't want to go on some rant that ends up being a complete Spoiler Fest, but as interesting as the premise behind where they were trying to go with that whole solution was, overall the way they went about it was nothing but a Complete ClusterFuck of Nonsense and Makebelieve.

And I am saying that even acknowledging it is a goddamn Zombie story. The idea of Zombies at all is more acceptable than the way they went about with the final realization and solution situation.

It lacks some of the depth of the original, but it makes for a decent prequel.

There are some minor continuity quibbles as well.

I thought it was Revenge of the Nerds meets Old School for kids. My kid loved it and sat on the edge of his seat so thumbs up for that. And Monsters Inc. was incredible so it had a tough act to follow.

Spring Breakers was very cool. Really unsettling and artsy. Boobs and guns everywhere. You have to suspend disbelief for the ending too. But it was great, i thought.

I couldn't appreciate it at all. You have to suspend your disbelief for the entire thing. It tried to be deep. It wasn't. I just kept rolling my eyes. The line repetition was very annoying. The only reason I stuck around for the whole thing was da sexy.

Spring Breakers was very cool. Really unsettling and artsy. Boobs and guns everywhere. You have to suspend disbelief for the ending too. But it was great, i thought.

I couldn't appreciate it at all. You have to suspend your disbelief for the entire thing. It tried to be deep. It wasn't. I just kept rolling my eyes. The line repetition was very annoying. The only reason I stuck around for the whole thing was da sexy.

Felt the same as Lib. It was like a music video. The one exception was James Franco - hilarious! I didn't like it at all when he wasn't in it.

We started to watch This is 40 last night. It's depressing. We also had to quit half an hour before the end because it was so long. We'll finish it tonight.
It's so creepy though, like Apatow is getting off on putting Paul Rudd in to his place in his family. Very few genuinely funny moments.

We're going to see The East tonight! Can't wait. We're also going to this new Japanese restaurant, omnomnomnomnomnom.

Q: How would you describe "The Wizard of Oz" to someone who has never seen it?

Waters: Girl leaves drab farm, becomes a fag hag, meets gay lions and men that don’t try to molest her, and meets a witch, kills her. And unfortunately — by a surreal act of shoe fetishism — clicks her shoes together and is back to where she belongs. It has an unhappy ending.

I saw this movie last night, Mysterious Skin starring JGL. Graphic scenes of child abuse and violent, bloody gay sex scenes aside, it was such a good movie. It was really raw and brave and honest and heartrending. It really captured all of the fears and anxieties of the 80s and early 90s. I don't know if i can recommend it though because it's pretty fucked up.

I saw this movie last night, Mysterious Skin starring JGL. Graphic scenes of child abuse and violent, bloody gay sex scenes aside, it was such a good movie. It was really raw and brave and honest and heartrending. It really captured all of the fears and anxieties of the 80s and early 90s. I don't know if i can recommend it though because it's pretty fucked up.

I really enjoyed this film too. I think it's one of his best films and especially because of the graphic scenes.

I saw this movie last night, Mysterious Skin starring JGL. Graphic scenes of child abuse and violent, bloody gay sex scenes aside, it was such a good movie. It was really raw and brave and honest and heartrending. It really captured all of the fears and anxieties of the 80s and early 90s. I don't know if i can recommend it though because it's pretty fucked up.

I really enjoyed this film too. I think it's one of his best films and especially because of the graphic scenes.

This film was recommended to me by MUBI a few years ago.

I thought it was really good. A great performance by JGL (and I don't usually rate him much) and the younger character. I loved the whole aliens subplot and how it ties in to the darker themes of the film, amazing.

My brother lets me use his HBO Go app. On it, among the good HBO shows, are a bunch of plot driven softcore porns. One of them was Bigfoot themed. It was so bizarre I just had to see. Spoiler: he's an alien and goes back to his home planet after having sex with the lead girl.

Just got back from seeing This is the End, it's easily the film I've laughed at most in recent years. Loved it, even the bits that I really didn't want to laugh at because it was so dumb or horrible I still couldn't help laughing at.

I watched Memories of Murder (Salinui chueok) on Saturday, which was pretty good, despite some bad scenes here and there. 7,5/10.
On Sunday I watched Bridesmaids and Hesher. I didn't enjoy Hesher that much, it was kind of boring. Bridesmaids was pretty fun, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Kristen Wiig was hilarious at times, and some things were really recognizable.

I'm watching Demolition Man. The guy that announces Sly's sentence around the beginning seemed to refer to himself as "Waylon Smithers," like the Simpsons character. He even looks a lot like him. I checked online and there isn't anything that even mentions this connection, save for a single person that made a thread about the possible connection with zero replies.

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